Location Phnom Touch Village, Mongol Borey District, Banteay Meanchey Province, Cambodia Community Description Phnom Touch is a village south of the district town of Mongol Borey, located in Banteay Meanchey, Cambodia. With a population of over 11,000, the village has a high rate of poverty, and lacks trained health workers. Most villagers work as rice […]
This project has been completed under the direction of Peace Corps Volunteer Erin Atwell. To read about the beginning of the project, CLICK HERE. This project was to participate in the construction of a women’s center by providing for the water and sanitation portions of the construction. Erin reports: Of the four objectives identified for […]
Water Charity Project Huabalito and La Botella are small farming annexes of Sausal, the village where Peace Corps Volunteer Matthew Fuller lives and works, and where 22 and 25 families live respectively. Each community is entirely dependent on export and subsistent farming as an economic activity, including the production of grapes and sugar for export. […]
Location Fass Toucouleur, Kaolack Region, Senegal Community Description Fass Toucouleur is a small Pulaar village located about 24 km south of Kaolack and 5 km west of the nearest paved road. There is no electricity and peanut and millet farming are the primary sources of income. On the edge of the village is the Fass […]
Location Sambande, Kaolack, Senegal Community Description Sambande is a small Seereer village of 500 people located 20 kilometers south of Kaolack and several kilometers from the nearest paved road. There is no electricity and the main source of income for the village is peanut and millet farming. In the center of the village is the […]
This project is to build pour-flush latrines at all of the homes in a small village in Morocco. There is a critical need for this project, which shows the relationship between effective sanitation and a safe water supply. Many families in the community do not have toilets, or have toilets that are in disrepair. However, […]